Understanding Your Child's Puzzling Behavior: A Guide for Parents of Children with Behavioral, Social, and Learning Challenges

When should you seek professional help for your child’s behavioral, social, or learning challenges? That’s never easy to determine, and you may find yourself wondering where to draw the line between “normal” behavior and a disorder that requires professional treatment. Understanding Your Child's Puzzling Behavior is the ultimate resource for learning when to intervene and how to seek further help for a struggling child.Your child may be dealing with school performance issues, anxiety, noncompliance, angry outbursts, or a host of other difficulties. These issues may or may not stem from an actual disorder—and they may even indicate a gifted child. Understanding Your Child's Puzzling Behavior contains exhaustive information on different types of professionals, what they can offer, and when to consult them. In a sequential, step-by-step layout, this book walks parents through the often-complex process of treating your child’s problems. You’ll learn not to accept any “quick-fix” solutions, but how to holistically assess the condition and determine the nature and root cause of the behavior.

Dr. Steve Curtis is both a licensed Child Clinical Psychologist and nationally certified school psychologist. Dr. Curtis has worked in a variety of medical, school, and university settings for the over twenty-five years, specializing in working with elementary-aged children struggling with behavioral and learning difficulties at home or school. Dr. Curtis completed his doctoral training in 1992 in Professional-Scientific Psychology at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.